Lectures & Talks

Events

Webcams, satellites and cell phones capture an incredible view of our world. When organized, these images provide an amazing lens for scientific and social discovery. This talk will explore what it takes to organize and index these image: how to automatically discover where in the world a camera is, what direction it is looking at Find out more »

Anne-Stine Johnsbrâten is an independent documentary photographer and in her public lecture she will introduce recent projects related to feminism and women’s issues in Asia, minorities, and more anthropological work she has done on her own family and the city of Oslo where she is from. TIME called her one of “eight Norwegian photographers you Find out more »

With Dr. James Kirkpatrick (Michigan State University) The earth is a dynamic and extraordinarily complex chemical processor. In much of the its outer 10’s of kilometers (the crust) most chemical reactions take place at the interface between minerals and a fluid filling the pores between mineral grains. These pore fluids are most commonly aqueous solutions Find out more »

“Mapping Space and Time Across the 18th Century British Atlantic” How did early modern maps navigate the distances of space and time between the places they depict? In the eighteenth century, the sharp, engraved lines of printed maps and charts were a particularly difficult medium in which to capture the actual and metaphorical currents of Find out more »

The Cuban Missile Crisis +55 On the 55th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the secret deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba brought the world to the brink of an unthinkable nuclear war, Emmy-award winning filmmaker Sherry Jones presents “The Missiles of October: What the World Didn’t Know.” This gripping documentary is told Find out more »

The Neurosciences program welcomes Dr. Meghan Creed, a researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology. Her topic: Targeting synapses to treat cocaine addiction Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder that is driven by long-term changes in the function of neural circuits, which persist long after addictive drugs have been cleared Find out more »

Colby Caldwell will talk about his work, which is included in the current Boyden Gallery exhibition, Living On The Land, curated by Jayme McLellan. Artist House Residency: Oct 19-25, 2017 Colby Caldwell graduated from the Corcoran School of Art (now College of Art and Design) in 1990. From 1997 – 2001, Caldwell taught in both the Find out more »

Where Does Race Come From? Anthropology Distinguished Scholar, Professor Jonathan Marks (UNCC) addresses the historical context of the development of the concept of race, in the 17th and early 18th centuries. While we now know what the basic patterns of human variation are, it is interesting in hindsight to ask how science came to think Find out more »

Free pizza or bring your own lunch! Yeon Jin Kim’s practice is based on traditional techniques put to new uses. She makes scroll drawings and constructs miniature models and characters from cardboard, paper, and other materials. She then uses them to film narrative videos. This deliberately low-tech process is often combined with various animation techniques. Find out more »

With Dr. Ami Radunskaya (Pomona College) What can mathematics tell us about the treatment of cancer? Cancer is a myriad of individual diseases, with the common feature that an individual’s own cells have become malignant. Thus, the treatment of cancer poses great challenges, since an attack must be mounted against cells that are nearly identical to Find out more »

Free pizza or bring your own lunch! Giulia Piera Liva is a Visiting Instructor in painting and drawing in the Department of Art and Art History for the 2017-18 academic year. She earned an MFA in Multidisciplinary Art with a concentration in Critical Studies at the Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Find out more »

The Neurosciences program welcomes Dr. Torry Dennis, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. His topic is TBA. Free and open to the public. This event may be used to satisfy the Lecture Reflection Requirement in PSYC 303, PSYC 490, and PSYC 493/494.

Free pizza or bring your own lunch! Adrian Hatfield’s current body of work, which samples and recombines elements from artwork of the past, is inspired by his musings on mass extinctions and current environmental issues. The paintings, collages and sculptures are sad and unnerving, yet beautiful and oddly hopeful. A mass extinction is an enormous Find out more »

The Neurosciences program welcomes Dr. Gina Fernandez, an assistant professor of psychology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her topic is TBA. Free and open to the public. This event may be used to satisfy the Lecture Reflection Requirement in PSYC 303, PSYC 490, and PSYC 493/494.

Free pizza or bring your own lunch! In photographs and installations, Lydia McCarthy fractures reality, building alternate worlds using in-camera manipulations. Art making becomes a devotional act that directly engages her complicated relationship with spirituality. Through participation in spiritual subcultures and these devotional acts, she creates personal structures of belief. Approaching the work as both Find out more »

Diana Abells’s recent work examines memory, misunderstanding, and desire in childhood. Identifying childhood as a time of instability between experience and thought, Abells is interested in how meaning shifts as children learn new points of connection between objects, places, and situations, leading to bizarre narratives. Through a variety of mediums including video, 3D modeling, installation, Find out more »